The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JUNE 4, 1901.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 123, 4 June 1901, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, JUNE 4, 1901.

VICTORIOUS AVAIHIRERE. It will bo seen by a telegram sent from Mr Mestayer to the Mayor, that the engineer has chosen tho AVaihirere creek as the source for a water supply to provide the wants of the people of Gisborne. In arriving at this decision Mr Mestayer has had before him the fullest information, and as 110 has taken considerable time to prepare his report, it may be assumed that every step has been taken with great deliberation. The reasons he has for arriving at such a decision are not of special interest to those who have made up their minds to obtain Mr Mestayer’s advice and abide by it, whatever the decision might be. On close examination it will, we think, be found that Mr Mestayer’s scheme is an amplification of that of Mr Boylan, a larger reservoir being provided for at a correspondingly larger cost.

PUSHING AMERICANS. The Americans arc pushing their way successfully into all avenues of trade, and nearly every week we read of some fresh commercial conquest. To-day, we learn that America financiers are seeking to get a hand in the lending of money to the colonies, and the Premier of New South Wales, fresh from Federal festivities and displays of British loyalty, states that if the terms are cheaper than in London the offer should be accepted. An American journal assures us that the English maiden of the better class plays upon an American-made piano. If she is fond of the amusement sho rides, as a matter of choice, an American-made bicycle. If sho tires of the bicycle and her parents are able and willing to indulge her taste in that direction, she prefers an American-made automobile. The English matron sews on an Americanmade sowing machine. She has formed the habit of purchasing American tableware. She prefers many articles of household furniture made in America to those manufactured in Great Britain or on the Continent. She is most comfortable in a pair of American shoes. She seldom goes out in rainy weather without an American mackintosh. The Englishman wears American spectacles, patronizes an American dentist, sharpens his American lead pencil with an American pocket-knife or uses an American fountain pen. In his business office down in an. American swivel chair at all American roll-top desk and dictates to a young woman who has mastered the American system of stenography and who rattles off his letters on an American typewriting machine. He communicates with his home over an American telephone, he takes long excursions by rail in an American parlor or sleeping car, and when fagged out by business or worry he takes an American cocktail. The English Government lets contracts for great bridges, railroads, army supplies, provisions, etc., to American contractors. In time of peace it depends upon the American hog, in time of war upon the American mule; in time of peace and war upon American canned provisions. Americans are building and equipping and controlling English traction lines, furnishing England with cash in return for bonds, providing the English nobility with wives and sustaining an ancient but decaying aristocracy with their dowries. Americans are now asked to submit plans •for the great memorial to be erected to the lato Queen Victoria.

Mr W. Bailoy, of Tatapouri, invites tenders forpainting, varnishing, and papering tho Tatapouri Hotel. The recent fine weather has greatlyimproved the road from Murewai to the Morere Hot Springs, and visitors from Gisborne can drive through without difficulty. Captain Edwin wired at noon yesterday : —“ Strong north to south-east winds ; glass fall; indications for increasing tides ; considerable easterly sea, and rain.”

Mr Cyril AVhito, Master of the Hounds, notifies gentlemen riders that application for licenses must be made through the secretary of tho Gisborne Racing Club not later than noon to-morrow.

A telegram received from Auckland yesterday states that the funeral of the victims of tho fire took place yesterday. The streets were crowded. A memorial service was attended by six hundred men, women, and children, weeping unrestrainedly, who stood throughout the service, Seventy carriages followed the hearses to the cemetery.

Attention is directed to the advertisement referring to Beavis’s refreshment rooms, Gladstone road (in the premises recently occupied by- Mr H. Warren, fruiterer). The proprietor has gone to considerable expense in fitting up the rooms. Hot meals can bo obtained at all hours, whilst the charges are moderate. Mr Beavis is a well-known and popular caterer, and ho is sure to get a good share of patronage.

Ancient history tells us of the colossus of Bhodes, and the wealth of Crcesus, but what can we moderns think of a single firm paying the sum of .£370,000 into the British revenue account in one week for duty on tobacco leaf. According to the London trade paper Tobacco, this was actually done in February last by Messrs W. D. and H. O. Wills, of Bristol, the famous manufacturers of the “ Three Castles ” cigarettes and the Capstan Navy .Cut tobacco. AVhen one realises that this gigantic sum was for duty on tobacco manufactured for their home trade alone, and docs not therefore embrace the tobacco exported by Messrs Wills’ to every city, town, and wayside village in the wide world, one can then form some dim conception of tho colossal business carried on by this firm. How would Premier Seddon smile if he had a few firms like this operating in New Zealand, What oh! the surplus then,

A monster prohibition meeting is to bo held in the Theatre Royal to-morrow night.

Objections to the Cook County valuation roll will be heard by the Stipendiary Magistrate on Monday next.

The Hospital Ball Committee meet at the Borough Council Chambers at 7.30 this evening to receive statement of accounts.

“ Phunny ” writes : —“ Why do they call a meeting of prohibitionists a ‘ monster ’ meeting ? I never saw snakes after drinking tea.” At a largely meeting held in the Albion Hotel on Saturday evening in connection with starting a Minstrel' Society, it was decided to form a society, and the name of the Mohawk Minstrels was selected, and the society has already a membership of over thirty. The object of the society is to give benefit performances whenever opportunity arises, and under the able directorship of Mr W. A. Andrews, who > has had a large experience in this kind of business in the colonies, the public will soon have an opportunity of witnessing some first-class entertainments. The minstrels intend giving their first performance in about a month’s time. A meeting to arrange details will be hold this evening in the Albion Hotel at 7.30.